Certain scents and odors can evoke strong memories, mostly pleasant. 
Memories of people or places that you may not have thought of in years. 
Grampa's pipe smoke or Mom's perfume that you associate with your childhood.

{No Capo}



   C                  C7          F         C                 
There's perfume on my jacket from many days ago,
D7                                      G                                    
I thought that I might wash it, ah, but honey I don't know.
      C                   C7    F             D7                                 
It's all that I have left now, since you went away,
    C                      G                    C                            
This perfume on my jacket, I think I'll let it stay.

     
I still recall the day when arm in arm we strolled,                
Along beside the river in the air so crisp and cold.                            
Your eyes they held a warmth I never will forget,                             
And I wish that I were walking with you yet.

   G                    C                                                        
It wasn't long ago when you sat next to me, 
        D                               G                        
And the perfume that you wore, it slowly seeped into my jeans.
 C                     C7      F              D7                                
It's all that I have left now, since you went away,
       C                    G                    C                           
This perfume on my jacket, I think I'll let it stay.


Remember dreams we shared, 'bout a cabin by the sea,

With a fire softly glowing in the hearth there by our feet.

I may be kind of foolish but I still hope and pray,

And someday you'll be with me once again.


It wasn't long ago when you sat next to me, 

And the perfume that you wore, it slowly seeped into my jeans.

It's all that I have left now, since you went away,

This perfume on my jacket, I think I'll let it stay.


We had so many dreams and we tried to make them true,

But destiny and fate, oh, they shattered all we knew.

The reasons I am sure, are up there in the stars

But the past is always heavy on our hearts.


It wasn't long ago when you sat next to me, 

And the perfume that you wore, it slowly seeped into my jeans.

It's all that I have left now, since you went away,

This perfume on my jacket, I think I'll let it stay. 

{Instrumental then out with retard – no sing}

[   C                  C7          F         C                 
There's perfume on my jacket from many days ago,
D7                                      G                                    
I thought that I might wash it, ah, but honey I don't know.
      C                   C7    F             D7                                 
It's all that I have left now, since you went away,
    C                      G                    C                            
This perfume on my jacket, I think I'll let it stay.]

© by Francis H. Peters